I overheard a thought from a front-end engineer: In fact, no one wants to work on design system components because it requires a lot of effort and brain power to consider all the states and edge cases, but everybody wants to work on solutions using these components.

Should we stop romanticising design systems?

I think a lot depends on context. Sometimes I've seen that teams in the research phase and endless pivots have locked themselves into a system design that prevents them from reacting quickly to the context.